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Bank B6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Herts
Band 6
Main area: Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist Grade: Band 6 Contract: Bank Hours
* Full time
* Flexible working
* Other
Bank Job ref: 824-Bank-LIT1361
Site: Harpenden Memorial Hospital Town: Hertfordshire Salary: £20.06 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay Salary period: Hourly Closing: 19/02/2025 23:59
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
CLCH aims to create a culture where staff feel supported, valued and respected for what they do and where the values we seek to show to our patients are the same values we show to each other, in line with the NHS People Plan and Our NHS People Promise and our own strategic Equality values and objectives.
Job Overview
8-5 Monday-Friday - Flexibility within
* To work within professional standards and clinical guidelines, promoting best practice and undertaking all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, including assessing and treating own caseload of patients/clients and maintaining professional documentation.
To build up and maintain key relationships with referrers including GPs, acute providers, Bedded Services, District Nurses, Wheelchair Services and other services across CLCH to facilitate appropriate referrals.
To be responsible for the supervision of rehabilitation assistants and speech and language therapy students.
To work mainly in the patients’ homes but also in a variety of settings including clinics, residential care homes, continuing care homes and community centers, it may entail individual and group therapy interventions.
To support personal and professional development through active participation in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and by participating in any audit or research being undertaken by the service.
Main Duties of the Job
To communicate information related to complex conditions from assessment through treatment and discharge to clients, carers and families.
To demonstrate excellent communication skills to communicate with and support the communication of patients who have complex and varied communication difficulties as a result of their neurological event.
To motivate and facilitate informed consent through advanced communication skills and to be able to gain co-operation for treatment where there may be significant barriers to understanding such as aphasia.
To demonstrate skill in managing conflict across a range of situations in a verbal, written, formal and informal manner.
To work with other members of the multi-professional team to run therapy groups on an as-needed basis.
To develop, update and present SLT therapy-specific patient and carer education presentations to clients and carers.
Working for Our Organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
* A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
* Flexible working options
* Training, support and development in your career
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
To undertake multidisciplinary neurological assessments, to be able to identify the needs of the clients and to work closely with the MDT on joint goals. These clients will present with a variety of complex neurological conditions, but with an emphasis on those recovering from stroke.
To analyse auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness in the home, at work and other relevant settings.
To carry out specialist neuro-physical examination of the orofacial process including the mechanism of eating and swallowing.
To monitor all aspects of the interaction of significant others with clients. In particular to simultaneously monitor auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of dyadic interactions, encouraging adaptive strategies to maximise effective communication.
To make appropriate clinical decisions following assessment, using evidence based practice and outcome measurement to provide the most effective treatment to clients and their families within clearly defined care plans and based on SMART goals agreed with clients and their families.
Person Specification
Education/Qualification
* Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
* License to Practise from the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists.
* Evidence of registration with the HCPC
* Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses relevant to speech/language/communication issues for adults
* Counselling skills training
* Other appropriate courses relevant to the case-load
Experience
* Appropriate experience of working with an adult case-load, including work with broad range of acquired neurological conditions including complex dysphagia
* Experience of working with adults requiring home enteral tube feeding
* Experience of working with relatives and carers.
* Experience in supervision of junior staff/support workers
* Teamwork, in a multidisciplinary context.
* Experience in provision of training packages
Skills and Knowledge
* Knowledge of stroke and neurological and degenerative illnesses and their management, national policies and procedures.
* Knowledge of current National and local policies related to area of work
* Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written. Good auditory discrimination skills and ability to transcribe speech phonetically.
* Membership of relevant Special Interest Group
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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